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Cutting off access to an entire region of potential upward utility...perhaps permanently if no one is willing to fight the consensus.

• keybored 2y ago
  I don’t understand what you are saying.
  • mistermann 2y ago
    Contradiction is socially disruptive, and ignored/policed quite thoroughly, denying access to Humans of pretty substantial portions of reality which is instead represented by illusory proxies/heuristics.
    • keybored 2y ago
      You’re talking in riddles even more than the most hermit mindfulness practitioner.
      • mistermann 2y ago
        An example: if religion shut down early practitioners of science, do you believe humanity would have missed out on any valuable knowledge? Or, how about if science had only received 1% of the total funding it has?